jankees
September 15th, 2012, 08:15
P-51K 44-11161 LC-N "June Nite" was flown by Ernest "Feeb" Fiebelkorn of the 20th FG. He was one of the biggest aces of the 8th Air Force, meaning tallest and heaviest, 6ft 4in combined with 225 pounds must have made a placement into Mustang's cockpit a bit problematic.
Nevertheless it did not prevent Feeb from becoming the top-scoring pilot of the 20th Fighter Group. Moreover, it was not Fiebelkorn's only claim to fame. On November 8th 1944 he and Edward Haydon from 357th FG managed to shoot down German Me 262 piloted by then top-scoring ace of the World - Walter Nowotny. The famous Austrian pilot was not lucky enough to survive that onslaught.
Feeb finished the war unscathed only to die in F-82 over Korea. His total score includes 8 individual aerial victories, 2 shared aerial victories and 2 individual ground victories.
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2012/09/15/bmvhz.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2012/09/15/imwjP.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2012/09/15/gREH6.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2012/09/15/Sv5c6.jpg
the paint, for the A2A Mustang, is now on OZx
Nevertheless it did not prevent Feeb from becoming the top-scoring pilot of the 20th Fighter Group. Moreover, it was not Fiebelkorn's only claim to fame. On November 8th 1944 he and Edward Haydon from 357th FG managed to shoot down German Me 262 piloted by then top-scoring ace of the World - Walter Nowotny. The famous Austrian pilot was not lucky enough to survive that onslaught.
Feeb finished the war unscathed only to die in F-82 over Korea. His total score includes 8 individual aerial victories, 2 shared aerial victories and 2 individual ground victories.
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2012/09/15/bmvhz.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2012/09/15/imwjP.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2012/09/15/gREH6.jpg
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2012/09/15/Sv5c6.jpg
the paint, for the A2A Mustang, is now on OZx